In one of the most exciting road course races in years, Kasey Kahne was able to survive multiple late-race double-file restarts to score his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series road course victory and the first win for team owner Richard Petty since 1999.

"It feels great, I can't believe it to tell the truth," Kahne said as he climbed from his winning No. 9 Budweiser Dodge. "I learned how to drive on dirt and to come out and win on a road course I think it takes a great Budweiser Dodge Charger...so many people that help us out. The guys at the shop, have had some ups and downs this year, but they're building great race cars and this is great to win for them."

"Good show man," a smiling Richard Petty told his driver in Victory Lane. "Our first win, good deal." Taking the victory, Kahne gives 'The King' his first win since John Andretti took the checkers at Martinsville in 1999. "I feel just as good as he does," Petty told TNT's Ralph Sheheen. "It is great man, it is great."

Leading a total of thirty-eight of the 113 laps, Kahne wrestled the top-spot away from Scott Speed on the top of the hill following a restart with just thirty-one laps remaining. After moving around Speed, Kahne began to put some distance between himself and the rest of the field. Unfortunately for the Richard Petty Motorsports driver, cautions continued to fall and bring the competition right to his back bumper.

The first time using double-file restarts on the road course, Kahne was definitely put to the test time after time. Once Kahne dealt with Speed, who used pit strategy to get to the front, he had a hard-charging Tony Stewart leading a host of hungry drivers looking for the lead.

While Kahne showed the way, Stewart, Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Denny Hamlin and Marcos Ambrose fought to be the car that made the move for the lead. Racing through the esses on the 1.99-mile course, defending series champion Jimmie Johnson looked to make the move on Kurt Busch for fourth. Johnson jumped the curb, lost control of the No. 48 Chevrolet and drove into the side of Busch's No. 2 Dodge, spinning the Atlanta winner hard into the tire barriers.

This incident set up another restart, this time with less than twenty laps remaining. Restarting on the outside, Kahne drove up the hill through the first series of corners side-by-side with Stewart. The Washington-native was finally able to clear the No. 14 Chevrolet and continued to lead the way. As the action heated up in the back of the pack, Marcos Ambrose began to make his charge back towards the front. When the sixth caution of the day fell on Lap 97, the Australian-native was sitting third behind Kahne and Stewart.

Forced to deal with Stewart once again on the restart, Kahne brought the field to the green doubled-up with just eleven laps remaining. The driver of the No. 9 Dodge took the advantage when Stewart spun the tires taking the green flag. Fighting for position up the hill, Ambrose was able to move past Montoya - who had looked under Stewart for position thanks to the double-file restart.

With less than ten laps remaining, the action back in the pack heated up once again. Kyle Busch - who was involved in an earlier incident - spun his damaged No. 18 Toyota, while Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Ragan and Boris Said got together in one of the difficult braking zones. None of those incidents brought out a full-course caution,  but when Scott Speed was turned and unable to refire his car, the yellow came out with just two laps remaining.

On a track that previously saw only one double-file start all day, Sunday's race would come down to a double-file Green-White-Checkered finish. Kahne once again lined up with Stewart to his left side, with Ambrose lined up in third behind Stewart and Johnson behind the leader in fourth. Slowly bringing the field to the green, Kahne once again beat the No. 14 up the hill and into the lead. Ambrose was able to clear Johnson and looked to make ground on the leaders.

The three cars out front - Kahne, Stewart and Ambrose - were evenly matched. While Stewart was able to make up some ground, nobody had anything for the Budweiser Dodge. Scoring his first victory of the year, Kahne was able to move within three marks of twelfth in the series standings.

"It was crazy," Kahne said of those final laps. "Stewart's as good as they get out here. I got to restart beside him four times, five times and cautions kept coming out. We were able to hold him off. He was giving me tons of room so I didn't get rubber on my tires, which is normal Stewart, the guy is awesome to race with. One of my favorite race car drivers."

"The second to last run there," Stewart explained, "we look in our mirror, we were fast, but Kasey was matching us lap for lap and when he came out in front of us there on that last round of pit stops I thought, 'Oh we might be in trouble here.' We could run about the same pace, I just couldn't be - I was  a little loose in the right handers and Kasey never made a mistake, the kid did an awesome job and just drove a perfect race."

Stewart went on to say he began to worry as the No. 47 appeared in his mirror in the closing laps. One of the strongest cars all weekend, Ambrose overcame a blown motor on Saturday and starting in the rear of the field on Sunday to come home third, matching his career-best finish.

"Just a great recovery for our team," Ambrose said following Sunday's race. "That's what our team is all about, we just never give up...We kept the car fairly straight. Up there when you're in that rare air with those drivers, you don't want to slip up when you are around them, when you've got your chance to run well and we brought her home. I would have loved to win the race, but I felt at a disadvantage after Saturday blowing up that motor, it feels like a win."

One man who was smiling for sure on Sunday was 'The King' Richard Petty. After struggling for so many years and being forced to sell the family team to George Gillett, Petty now has a victory to show for it. Not only did Richard Petty Motorsports take home the victory, the team cars of AJ Allmendinger and Elliott Sadler came home in seventh and tenth, respectively.

The Toyota/SaveMart 350 was slowed by seven cautions and featured ten lead changes amongst eight drivers. Next weekend the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in what is sure to be another exciting event. With New Hampshire as the the first Chase race, many teams will be trying different set-ups in an attempt to learn something for when the series returns to the Magic Mile in mid-September.

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